Did you know that the Islamic religion encourages its adherents to lie blatantly to non-Muslims to weaken and undermine them, and that this has repeatedly been applied to war scenarios over the centuries? The concept of “taqiyya” and extreme mixed messaging from the Palestinian Authority have some people worrying about the permanency of the new Israel-Gaza “peace deal.”
The Arabs who started calling themselves Palestinians in the 1960s are not going to stop wanting to wipe Israel off the map because they receive concessions. That method has been tried and failed countless times over nearly a century. Any peace is by definition temporary. Just as the Muslims built mosques on the Temple Mount to claim falsely the spiritual heritage of Judaism, just so they now openly avow their goals of taking over the only Jewish nation and making Jerusalem again an Islamic capital.
In fact, Hamas celebrated the new deal as ensuring withdrawal of Israeli forces, which they wrongly mislabel as “occupation forces.” The Palestinian Authority (PA) just invited Hamas to “unify with us” and Hamas has declined, of course, to disarm. Israel is supposed to release nearly 2,000 Gazan prisoners, including 250 life-sentence jihadis. Islamic sacred texts endorse jihad and practically make it a duty. Therefore the jihad will never end as long as Islam exists.
BREAKING: Gazans celebrate "peace deal" by chanting “Khaybar, Khaybar, ya Yehud”, a call for the slaughter of Jews pic.twitter.com/Q8IU80SFlJ
— Hananya Naftali (@HananyaNaftali) October 9, 2025
So why might the PA and Hamas agree to peace if they don’t mean it? What is “taqiyya” and why might it apply to this situation?
It is based on Quran 3:28, which warns against offering alliance to “unbelievers” unless it serves a prudential goal. As Robert Spencer previously explained:
This is a foundation of the idea that believers may legitimately deceive unbelievers when under pressure. The word used for “guard” in the Arabic is tuqatan, the verbal noun from taqiyyatan — hence the increasingly familiar term taqiyya...there is Muhammad’s statement: “War is deceit” (Bukhari 4.52.259).
Muhammad also allowed for lying in battle and lying between a husband and wife. And when Muhammad gave permission to one of his followers, Muhammad bin Maslama, to murder one of his critics, Ka’b bin al-Ashraf, he also gave Muhammad bin Maslama permission to lie to Ka’b in order to lure him close enough to be killed (Bukhari 4.52.271).
All of which laid the foundations for the now long-established belief in Islam that it is permissible and even praiseworthy to deceive opponents. Hamas certainly believes in taqiyya, because it has numerous times broken ceasefires that it had demanded.
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Oct. 7 was not only the anniversary of Hamas’s 2023 atrocities; it was also the anniversary of the 1571 victory of the Christians under Don Juan de Austria over the Muslim Ottomans. It was such a key victory for Europe’s freedom that Pope Pius V established it as a feast day honoring Jesus’s Mother, in whose name the Christians fought. But before the famous clash at Lepanto, the Ottomans provided an example of taqiyya, as Catholic Insight explains:
[The] fortified town of Famagusta on Cyprus, fell in 1571. [Ottoman] Lala Kara Mustapha Pasha had promised safe surrender for the inhabitants, then reneged on his word – after all, he saw Christians as the infidel, to whom one could lie – murdering or enslaving all left within. The leader, Marcantonio Bragadin, was tortured, his ears and nose cut off and left to fester, beaten, paraded through the streets, flayed alive, and his stuffed body used as a trophy for Pasha’s ship. The cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Famagusta is now a mosque dedicated to Mustapha.
For Muslims, war is a sacred way of life and the surest road to Paradise. And for them also, lying is just another weapon in the unending jihad against Judaism and Christianity.
